Category — Computer Components

Microsoft has finally announced that two more titles will be added to the Xbox Originals service today May 19th.

The two titles will be Aspyr’s Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel without a Pulse and Midway’s Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows. The Xbox Originals service allows gamers to purchase original Xbox games online and play them through the Xbox 360.

Stubbs the Zombie is a third-person zombie game which released on the Xbox in October 2005 in North America and February 2006 in Europe. Unlike most zombie games, Stubbs the Zombie lets the player take control of a zombie who is unable to use weapons such as guns due to his zombie state and is instead armed with improvised weapons like his hand, pancreas, and even his head.

Gauntlet: Seven Sorrows is a resurrection of the old arcade classic Gauntlet that came out on Microsoft’s first console in December 2005. The game combines the elements of fantasy fighting action and strategic role playing and customization that gives players the choice of teaming up with their friends for some multiplayer action.

Both games can be downloaded for 1200 Microsoft points.

A quick look at the HTC Touch Diamond coming soon. Looks like iPhone got a competition. And all I can say was WOW!

HTC Corp says it will be available to customers across all major European carriers in June; later this quarter in Asia and the Middle East; and in North America and Latin America it will be available in the second half of 2008. No pricing info available yet.

Looks like I am going to defer my plans for WD’s Velociraptor now that Verbatim®, a leading brand in digital storage solutions, announced that it will launch this Q2 2008 the world’s first half-Terabyte 2.5” Portable Hard Disk Drive (HDD) on a 9.5mm Z-height drive.

The demand for higher-capacity portable storage devices at both the consumer and corporate levels seems to be never ending. Thanks to internet where there is a growing number of users who are uploading and downloading huge volumes of digital content (porn or otherwise). (Ok don’t sulk. I have my share. I am sure you do as well.).

Going back to this baby disk with a smart attitude… [Read more →]

Elitegroup Computer Systems (ECS), the world’s leading motherboard, graphics card, barebone system, and notebook manufacturer, launches the latest N9600GSO-384MX-F graphics card based on the brand new NVIDIA® GeForce® 9600GSO graphics processing units (GPU).

This dynamite N9600GSO-384MX-F graphics card comes with an explosive 384 MB GDDR3 memory and a 192-bit memory interface, and 550 MHz core and 1600 MHz blasting memory clock speed. With its ultra powerful 96 processor cores, the 9600GSO GPU-based graphics card brings to life the gaming desire of the true hardcore players without compromising graphics performance.

With the main objective to target the mainstream gamer segment, the new N9600GSO-384MX-F graphics card is definitely the video card of choice delivering unprecedented graphics power without being pricy.

It currently offers support for DirectX 10 and resolutions up to [Read more →]

If you like to download stuff from the internet, then you are probably a storage geek just like me. With tons of files out there on the net, you can’t help but fill your hard drive that fast slowing your system down but you still want more. So later you end up buying a second USB portable hard drive dedicated to just downloading.

Hard disk manufacturers, therefore, tried hard to satisfy this lust for more storage by introducing innovative new, capacity-driven and fast drives every time. Take Western Digital’s VelociRaptor as an example. The company’s latest 10,000 rpm (rotations per minute) drive, is now my dream hard drive drive because of its speed and massive storage.

Test results showed that indeed WD picked an extremely appropriate name for its new hard drive. Hailed as the VelociRaptor, this new drive screeched through the PC World Test Center’s performance tests. [Read more →]